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Watching the fly brain in action

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New technical feats make it possible to monitor the activity of identified neurons in awake behaving Drosophila melanogaster.

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Figure 1: Imaging neural activity during visual stimulation in the walking fly.

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  1. Saskia E. J. de Vries and Thomas R. Clandinin are in the Department of Neurobiology, Damon A. Clark, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,

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